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Graduation countdown: 48 days

48 days.

Over Thanksgiving weekend last year, Jillian, Erin and their friend Stephanie came from Venice to visit me in Grenoble and go up to Paris. The whole Grenoble-finding-a-place-to-stay-during-a-Socialist-convention story is one for another time. But when we went to Paris, we stayed in a hostel. The desk clerk's name was Frédéric. Actually, it wasn't. It could have been, but we never asked. We just made it up.

The guy ahead of us in line was very annoying and didn't pay any attention to what Frédéric was saying. We smiled knowingly at him and waited patiently. Then he serviced served us. We had to give him our names and dates of birth and such. The dates gave the Venetians a chance to practice their newly-learned French numbers, which seemed to impress and amuse Frédéric. He pointed out that he and Jillian were born on the same day - 17 March 1980.

On the elevator, on the way up to our room, we fought over who was going to win him and I announced that I was, due to my superior French-language skills. Of course, Jillian had the whole soul-mates thing going on. By the time we came down, almost brave enough to ask him to come to dinner with us, he was gone. Sigh

srah - Sunday, 17 March 2002 - 9:52 AM
Tags: graduation countdown, grenoble, paris, travel

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